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2010-09-04T20:48:11Z

Anyone know when/where they'll post the session posts

Where do we get slides from the sessions?

2010-09-01T04:02:11Z

I keep hearing mention of slides and etc being available ... any idea where they're located?

VMworld 2010 - Overall Impression

2010-09-03T04:24:22Z

Let me start by saying that VMworld 2010 was my third time attending the conference - I attended the 2007 and 2009 conferences, obviously both were in San Francisco. I am yet to walk away feeling disappointed from any of these conferences, this year included. I must admit that I was a little worried about how the breakout sessions would go this year considering no pre-registration - while I did miss a couple of sessions because they were full by the time I got to the class (in some cases 30 minutes early), I will say that I still had a worthwhile conference. Obviously, we will all have access to all the presentations soon, but there is a certain degree of value in just 'being there' at a particular session. I do wish that VMware brings back pre-registration, but I won't let this stop me from attending a future conference if it doesn't happen.

I thought the lab setup was slick - while crowded at times, you have to admit that the lab staff did an amazing thing in terms of labs completed, VMs created, etc. That was impressive...

If I have a complaint, it would be this - the Solutions Exchange Welcome Reception was nearly impossible to navigate through on Monday night. Obviously with 17,000+ attendees, this was bound to happen. I didn't get a lot of value out of the reception Monday night, I ended up meeting a friend and we essentially hung out on the sidelines of the reception because it was just too packed. Not really sure how that can be addressed in the future..

The party - I had a blast - I really enjoyed that it was back at the Moscone Center again, makes it easy when you can walk back to your hotel and not have to hop a bus with 17,000 other people trying to get back to their hotels. I'm probably a little biased regarding the band because I love INXS - also really enjoyed Foreigner last year.

I was only able to take advantage of the hot meals one day this year, but I really appreciate their availability this year - I've never been a fan of the sandwich/side/apple/desert combo plate we were offered in years past so having fried chicken and biscuits (on Wednesday) was a welcome change.

So VMware, thank you for another conference - hopefully see you in Vegas in 2011!

Who is ready for Vegas?

2010-09-07T11:32:45Z

Anyone know if it will be the same location as pasy VMWorld's?

for more information on Infrastructure Management

2010-09-05T20:45:46Z

and technical support: http://www.box.net/imts

large or small hosts

2010-09-03T19:09:15Z

I have been asked an interesting question; is it better to have few larger esx hosts or more smaller hosts??? i.e. hypothetically, would 3 hosts carrying 4 quad cores and 256 GB Ram be better or worse than 6 hosts with 2 quad cores and 128 GB?

Any thought would be appreciated.

Music playlist

2010-09-05T02:56:56Z

Maybe weird question...anybody know the names of the songs that were being played in the room before the start of each breakout sessions?

api for unsupported RAID array

2010-09-04T20:11:12Z

The servers we are using with esxi have an unsupported RAID array and was wondering if we could create an API to fix the problem we are having with this raid array. I am desperate and we need a solution to fix our issue. The server works but we need to make it so the people in the field can setup it up with out dealing with a certain complication we have with the RAID. Basically the RAID does not see the virtual drive it sees both drives and sometimes works when you install it and sometimes it does not work. We need to make it so that ESXi sees one virutal drive and installs into that drive. Please let me know if this is possible at all

api for unsupported RAID array

2010-09-04T20:10:33Z

The Coffee Booths are way too expensive

2010-08-31T15:44:18Z

After checking in yesterday, the only coffee I saw was being sold by a vendor in a booth there on the lower floor fo Moscone South. They claimed to sell Startbucks coffee, so I asked for my usual venti cup of bold. First of all, they did not know what I was talking about. Then I finally got someone else to tell me they sold Starbucks coffee, but did not have the Starbucks cups, just small and large and they only had regular, not bold. So I asked for two shots of espresso to go in the large coffee. They put the espresso in a tiny cup and charged me $4.25. I repeated my order for the espresso in the large coffee and they wanted to charge me another $2.50 for the coffee, so I just left.

I went to a real Starbucks later on at the Yerba Buena next door to the convention. They sell the venti bold for $1.90 and $.65 for each shot of espresso. If you want just espresso, it is $1.65 for the first shot and like $1.90 for two. Later, I foune that VMware was nice enough to have free Starbucks coffee outside the breakout sessions. I will not patronize the Moscone Center coffee vendor again.

VMworld doesn't scale!

2010-08-30T20:19:21Z

This is my fourth VMworld and it's probably my last. The lines are ridiculous and people are forced to attend something they aren't really interested in or nothing at all. Is your experience different? If so, let me know your secret because I don't want to spend half the time here waiting in line.